The Dangers of the Prosperity Gospel
A few weeks ago, I came across an article in the Atlantic Monthly magazine, which bore the extraordinary title Did Christianity Cause the Crash?
A few weeks ago, I came across an article in the Atlantic Monthly magazine, which bore the extraordinary title Did Christianity Cause the Crash?
Please ask yourself whether you would like others to judge Christianity based on the picture of it now being presented in the modern Western media. Then please remember the Golden Rule, and apply this to the picture of Islam presented by the same source.
Critics never seem to tire of pitting the doctrines of the Catholic Church against her works of charity, as if the two were somehow mutually exclusive or even opposed.
He has made a headline already; and typically by saying something that is a commonplace of Catholic belief, to astounded media reporters. On the plane from Rome he mentioned that the worst persecutor of the Catholic Church is her own propensity to sin. Her worst enemy is inside, not outside.
The three years of service that Cardinal Francis George of Chicago has given the Church as president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have been a great blessing.
There are two basic positions in the medley of world religions outside the Catholic Church.
My path to the priesthood went through the study of economics, so the past week I've spent at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences is about as pleasant a task as I could imagine.
The suicidal proclivity of our time, writes J. Budziszewski, is to deny the obvious. Our hearts are riddled with desires that oppose their deepest longings, because we demand to have happiness on terms that make happiness impossible. Why? And what can we do about it? Budziszewski addresses these vital questions in his persuasive new book, The Line Through the Heart.
Permit me to suggest that you owe Pope Benedict XVI a public apology, for what, objectively speaking, is a calumny that I pray was informed in part by ignorance (if culpable ignorance).
Yet another apologia for atheism is enjoying media hype and broad public attention.